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41 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 13 February 2013 01:45PM

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Comment author: magfrump 13 February 2013 06:34:18PM 4 points [-]

I would like to contribute to this project.

I have limited programming experience as well as some GameMaker experience which I recommend for the first round of prototyping. My free time is limited though and likely to remain VERY limited until late March.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 14 February 2013 11:44:55AM 1 point [-]

Please join the mailing list. :-)

We should discuss the language used for making the game - I saw people in the earlier game threads recommend Unity, since it makes it easy to develop something for multiple platforms independently.

Comment author: DaFranker 14 February 2013 10:22:54PM 0 points [-]

Wheeeeeeeee!

That page gave me a few new things to look at, such as Haxe, which I've never seen before (despite having played some of the games built on it!) and will be taking a look at.

Past experience with Unity in the developer-friendliness department was not good, especially considering the way it was recommended to me ("Even easier to use than GameMaker, and you'll have a prototype up and running twice as fast!"). There's high chances that it's better than I thought back then or that it has improved considerably, though, considering how many people are using it. I'm quite willing to take another good look at it.